28 AMERICAN POLICE BEAT: MAY 2017 Streets of San Francisco Can you smell what the Rock is cookin’ . . . Wrestler-turned movie star Dwayne Johnson poses with members of the San Francisco Police Dept. In Nebraska, Stanley Moreno, his wife, Janice, and their 17-year-old daughter, Sarah, were watching a movie in their home earlier this year. Moreno looked over at his wife and knew something was very wrong. Out of nowhere, Janice went from enjoying the film to gasping for air. The daughter Sarah called 911 while Stanley tried to see if there was some- thing obstructing his wife’s airway. Following the advice of an emer- gency operator he was able to get his wife on her back on the floor. Stanley told the operator he couldn’t remember the limited CPR training he had. He’d taken a few classes “but I really had never been in a situation where I had to use it.” Moreno said he, “kind of half-remembered the procedure and tried his best.” Janice threw up but she was still fading. Her eyes were wide-open and Stanley said, “I could feel her getting heavy in my arms,” he told reporters for The Independent. In the nick of time, three Grand Island police officers showed up. The fire department got there as well and everyone coordinated and went to work. “And it was just something to see,” Moreno told reporters. Someone yelled out “we can’t get a pulse,” and Stanley feared the worst. But EMTs got a Lucas device on the victim that restored her breathing. Soon she was on a stretcher and on her way to CHI Health St. Francis. Sgt. Phoukhong Manivong credited the quick thinking of his colleagues Sgt. Jason Allan and Officer Justin Roehrich. “When they got there she was al- ready blue,” Manivong said. “As soon as we began CPR, slowly she started coming back around.” With the assistance of the Fire De- partment, they were able to bring her back, he said. “We all had a part in it. Everybody just kept going. Nobody gave up.” Police Chief Robert Falldorf re- cently gave the department’s Life Saving Award to Allan, Manivong and Roehrich. The Morenos were present for the ceremony. Cops, EMTs use CPR and teamwork in great save Everyone, not just officers, should learn basic CPR Keep it simple stupid! That phrase would certainly seem to apply to a something as simple as figuring out when in fact someone has run a red light. But nothing’s simple anymore in an age where people need to buy an app to manage the other apps on their smart phones. In Ohio, House Bill 154’s intent was to loosen red light restrictions for bicyclists who use main roads. But the devil’s always in the details and now confusion reigns. The law was written so poorly that (at least at the time this was written) it’s basically legal for any- one to run a red light in certain circumstances. Here’s the skinny – traffic signal sensors use the weight of a vehicle to let it know when the light should change. Bicycles don’t usually trigger the sensors because they’re too light. “What this bill was designed to do in that situation, is allow the bicyclist to make a decision that it’s clear to proceed and go ahead and move through the red light,” says Lt. Robert Sellers of the Ohio State Patrol. But the wording allows all on the road to do that, including cars. Now there’s a new bill to fix the previous bill. But if you speak and read legalese and have enough free time, you could conceivably run every red light in the state and successfully contest the tickets. Doesn’t sound like too much fun, but to each his or her own. Running red lights in Ohio briefly legal because of bad paperwork Celebrating 50 Years of Serving Public Safety Professionals visit galls.com Use Promo Code AMPBEAT *Select Brands Excluded 15% OFF